Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irvington, N.Y. know John the gardener, a chunky, happy-looking, apple-cheeked man of 42. Some who don't know John by sight know him by sound. Many a time during the six months he has lived and worked there, strollers have been startled to hear his rich tenor voice ring out from behind a hedge, have slowed their pace to hear an operatic aria rising above the snip-snip of his clippers. But few of the townspeople of Irvington (pop. 3,272) know that only eight years ago "John" was the first tenor of Moscow's Bolshoi...
...Black. In those days John was Ivan Jadan, and Russian critics compared him enthusiastically to Leonid Sobinov, who 40 years ago sang tenor to Chaliapin's bass. His more ardent admirers called him "the Russian Caruso." Ivan lived in Moscow's most modern apartment house with his wife Olga and his son Alexander, enjoyed the special privilege of shopping in the luxury stores reserved for the new Soviet aristocracy. There was only one wrong note: Jadan was not a party member...
Bach: St. Matthew Passion (Elfriede Troetschel, soprano; Diana Eutrati, contralto; Friedrich Haertel, bass; D. Fi-scher-Dieskau, baritone; Helmut Kreps, tenor; Boys' Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral, the augmented choir and orchestra of the Berlin Radio, Fritz Lehmann conducting; Vox, 8 sides LP). One of the first postwar German recordings. Bach's great score is unabridged, the orchestra and chorus are fine, the soloists are good. Recording: excellent...
...another negotiation, Bing and up & coming Tenor Richard Tucker found themselves "only ?50 out." They left it to the flip of a coin; Bing won. By last week, moreover, almost all of the Met's supporting singers were snug in new contracts...
...Tenor Melchior promptly quit and wound up his 24 years at the Met with a switch on the oldest gag in opera: "If I don't miss the swan boat in Lohengrin Thursday night, it will be my goodbye to the Metropolitan . . ." After the performance he said, "Not only as Lohengrin but as Lauritz Melchior, I have sung my swan song . . ." His fans gave him a warm ovation and tearful dressing-room farewells...